On Amsterdam Schiphol Airport the transfer to train is probably quicker than to another plane _if_ you only have carry-on bags. I've seen quite a few other inte

On Amsterdam Schiphol Airport the transfer to train is probably quicker than to another plane _if_ you only have carry-on bags. I've seen quite a few other international airports like this, maybe it's the density of Europe that promotes this kind of layout? Baggage is an issue for sure. I've long felt that the baggage belts system provides a great generic (flexible) solution but blocks a lot of ideas that require tighter integration. Anything that replaces it would be orders of magnitude more complex and fragile. We'll probably have belts for quite a while.